I haven't been on lately as I am going through a financial hardship. Therefore, I've had to go to other, paying sites in order to try and make a few dollars here and there. I have no time for pleasure writing, unfortunately, until my finances can be stable again. Just thought I'd let people know why I haven't been here in a while... |
Well, talk about live and learn. My dream of finishing the NaNoWriMo has come to a crashing tonight when I found that the word count tool I was using was inacurate. Not only did it put me at 52,360 words, but when I tried the next word counting tool, that put me at 54,000! Here's the links to the word tools that I used so that no one else uses them. http://www.wordcounttool.net/ and the other one is : http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/countwords.shtml#.UkWUkNL4ySo Both are inaccurate and they put me out of the race to win. In actuality, I only had 46,367 words. I was 4,000 short of crossing the finish line thanks to those word count tools.....Am I discouraged? You bet. But next year? Watch out! My love for writing far outweighs any failure. Never give up!! |
The NaNoWriMo has been incredibly challenging for me. I lost my work a total of 6 times either by my own carelessness by not writing in a safe mode, or by my daughter who used my laptop and x'ed out my stuff by mistake. I finally put it on Notepad and it's all good. Well, I have till midnight, and I still have about 7,300 words to go....Needless to say, I'm freaking out.. |
Well, I'm up to 10,000 words in the Nano writer contest. It that good or do you think I'm behind the 8 ball? This is so much tougher then I thought it would be! |
I've just edited an item in my portfolio:
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I wish I knew if my writing ability was good enough to put forth a novel. I hate having that doubt that I'm just not good enough. |
I wrote an article and it was featured on Jawface.com. I did my first real interview and it was so cool... http://jawface.com/page/homosexuality-a-subjective-view#.UmrdE_nE9QA |
I wish more then anything that these contests would raise the word count by at least 500. I had such a an awesome story for a contest, but the word count is ridiculously low and my stories keep getting cut in half. I'm not saying that I CAN'T get my story out in so few words, I don't want to. I just feel as if a story could be so much better with more words. Is this just me or do others writers feel the same? |